{"id":926,"date":"2020-03-04T00:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2022-11-29T20:54:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:54:27","slug":"ensuring-chemical-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/ensuring-chemical-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensuring Chemical Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>In early November 2019 in Burlington, MA, a Buffalo Wild Wings employee accidentally mixed an acid-based cleaner with bleach when cleaning their kitchen floors. This caused for toxic fumes to generate and fill the air, resulting in one fatality and up to 13 injuries to other customers and workers. This tragic occurrence should be viewed by all members of the janitorial industry as an example as to why proper chemical use training is vitally important. Mixing unknown chemicals can be extremely dangerous and should always be avoided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\nC.M. Cleaning, we spend ample time educating our staff of the dangers of mixing\nunknown chemicals. Using chemicals with appropriate dilution, labeling, and\ninstruction is key to a safe workplace. We work hard at being knowledgeable of\nour cleaning chemicals, ensuring our dispensing equipment is in working order,\nand that our bottles and storage our properly labeled. When it comes to\nchemical use, safety is top priority! For your own personal health and safety, please\nsee the helpful tips below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Never\nmix any cleaning products. <\/strong>Even if a chemical\nmixture does not give off fumes, it can still be dangerous. Once used, some\ncleaning products can leave behind residue or low quantities of liquid that may\nbe harmful to the skin. Without the proper training, one may not know that\ncombining seemingly harmless cleaning products can still be dangerous. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bleach\nand mixed products. <\/strong>Mixing bleach with any product can lead to\nthe generation of toxic chlorine gas which may result in a variety of\nrespiratory illnesses or even death. It is crucial to take an incident where\nbleach is mixed with cleaning products very seriously. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>If\nchemicals are mixed, here are the next steps to take. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At\nfirst sign of a gaseous substance or respiratory distress, immediately evacuate\nthe area and move to a well-ventilated area, preferably the outdoors. Do not\nattempt to clean up the mixture yourself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If\nyou have inhaled any amount of gas or suspect that you have, call 911 and seek\nimmediate medical attention. If you have not inhaled any gas, call poison\ncontrol and have all relevant Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) ready and available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early November 2019 in Burlington, MA, a Buffalo Wild Wings employee accidentally mixed an acid-based cleaner with bleach when cleaning their kitchen floors. This caused for toxic fumes to generate and fill the air, resulting in one fatality and up to 13 injuries to other customers and workers. This tragic occurrence should be viewed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/ensuring-chemical-safety\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ensuring Chemical Safety&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[279,275,278,277,276],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-accident-prevention","tag-chemical-safety","tag-janitorial-safety","tag-safety-data-sheets","tag-sds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4706,"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmcleaning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}